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Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians ( Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, Ukrainian: Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine. Black Ukrainians are multi-lingual, knowing both Russian and Ukrainian in addition to their native languages, and are aware of the cultural conflict in Ukraine between the Ukrainian and Russian languages. [1] [2] [3] The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.
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The Ukrainian word nehr ( Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit. ' Negro', itself a nativized loan from the Spanish: negro and the Portuguese: negro. [4] unlike nègre is considered offensive in French, nehr/неɾр is not considered offensive. The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy ( Ukrainian: чо́рний).